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`The last few years have been successful in terms of the support the World Bank provides to Bulgaria, with financial aid rising tangibly, as well as the efficiency of projects`, World Bank Mission Leader for Bulgaria Thomas O`Brian and the Outgoing PM Iva
Financial Times; By Stefan Wagstyl and Theodore Troev Simeon Saxe-Coburg, the former King of Bulgaria, is about to become the country`s prime minister in the first comeback for a royal house in Eastern Europe since the fall of Communism.
`The breakout and the development of the ethnic conflict in Macedonia poses a real threat to Bulgaria`s national interests`, reads a memorandum on Bulgaria`s position on Macedonia released by the Research Centre for Bulgarian National Strategy and the Mac
The European Commission (EC) gave a high assessment of Bulgaria`s preparation to get agriculture aids under the SAPARD program during the pre-admission period, the `Deutsche Welle` reported on Friday, quoting the commission`s report. The report acknowledg
Balkan Airlines resumes its flights along the regional lines. The Sofia-Athens destination is to be resumed as of July 15 and Sofia-Istanbul-as of July 20.
`We are suffering moral damages, three of our patients wanted to be discharged after the information appeared that a patient with `mad cow` disease is hospitalised in our clinic`, Prof. Stefka Yancheva, director of the 1st Neurological Clinic `St.
Bulgaria`s 39th National Assembly will have 20 standing committees, according to changes in the parliamentary rules of procedure, which passed on Friday. The last parliament had 15 such committees.
Two projects in support of Bulgaria`s agricultural development were signed by Finance Minister M. Radev and Andrew Vorkink, country director for Bulgaria at the World Bank (WB): the Cadastre and Land Registration project /EUR 33.
The National Health Insurance Fund /NHIF/ reported Incomes for year 2000 amounting to BGN 549.195.
The first official consultations between President Peter Stoyanov and representatives of the Simeon II National Movement coalition (SNM) on the formation of the future cabinet lasted an hour and a half. SNM was represented by the coalition`s leader Simeon
Two landing boats stationed at the Burgas naval base were handed over to the Georgian navy on Friday morning. The vessels were donated to Georgia under a bilateral military cooperation agreement and will be the only boats of this kind in Georgia.
The Parliament accepted the resignation of the government of Ivan Kostov with 162 votes `for` to zero `against` and one `abstention`. Kostov`s government, the second for the United Democratic Forces (UtdDF) since the launch of democratic changes, took off
The price of the electric power will rise by 10% to 20% in 2002, experts from the State Energy Agency (DAEER) announced. The rise is inevitable for new power capacities are put to operation, producing more expensive electricity.
President Peter Stoyanov starts on Friday the official consultations about the new government. At 4.
Turkey may stop buying electricity from the beginning of 2003, because the contracts on power export have been repeatedly violated. This is an unofficial warning sent by Turkish power-supply company.
We will work with the selected best candidate for the Varna Shipyard only after we get acquainted with the business plan, said a representative of the International Financial Corporation while commenting the possible participation in the purchase of the s
THE SOFIA region will contribute and overall of BGN 952 million from personal income tax to the republican budget, based on the tax returns submitted so fat, the regional tax office announced. ****
Tthe wholesale vegetable prices have gone 20% up for a year`s time, due to unfavourable weather conditions in spring and the rise in the electricity and fuel tariffs, said Alexander Iotsov, director of the Bulgarplod-Slatina wholesale market in Sofia. Th
The starting point in our analyses, conclusions and forecasts is that this National Assembly exemplifies the idea for security and stability of change. By virtue of the election results our natural place is in the opposition space, Georgi Parvanov, chair
As a representative of the political power which formed the parliamentary majority in the 38th National Assembly and governed Bulgaria in the past four years, I feel obliged to say what heritage we leave to the new majority and new government; what we exp
The legal status of Primus inter pares /First among equals/, is a status of honour. On a personal note the honour is even more obliging for me in the light of the fact that I entered politics only two months, with just my academic name to back me.
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